The Sun. — London, England, 1809-03-31 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 30.---Arrived his Majesty's Ships Termagant and illphea, from the Dowtii.; and the Harmony, GRAMM ) from St..Michaell. Sailed his Majesty's Ships Thalia and Termagant, for Quebec, togethet with a convoy . ; Hero, STE PHENSON, Prince of Wales, DAVENPORT, Stag, 'MALLET, and Queen, Witsow, for Quebec; Hope, -- —, for St. Andrew's; Triumvirate, GREEN, for New Brunswick ; Success, MARTIN,.for Newfound. land'; Cornwallis, —, for Hull; St. Nickolas, for Dungarven ; Eagle, SMITH, and Virgo, ALLEN, from Cork. The Harmony, GRADEN, on her passage from St. Michael's, spoke in lat. 50. 9. long. 12. 50. the Ship Ann, of Liverpool, bound to New-York, all FALMOUTH, MARCH 28.—Sailed his Majesty's Ship Iluntlir on a cruize. DEAL, MAUCH 30.—Sailed his Majesty's Ship COP delia, with the American Ship Herkemar, and the Eary and Britannia, for Portsmouth. In the Downs, the Agincourt, Venerable, Implacable, Mars, Saturn, Dannernark, Bloke, Viaorious,. and Men ai. uth Sjtips of the Line the /alive, Woolwich, and Hope Frigates i and the Furious Gun.brig. Sailed thu Speculator Lugger this morning, with the dispatches for the Fleet in the North Sea. A Vessel is arrived from Gijon in eight days. The letters brought by her state, that the people of Alittlrk; are in high spirits, and express an unshaken. Confidence in the ultimate success of their exertions against the infaronus otniressors of their country.— We e Wive," says one of these letters, " an army of 30,000 men, 20,000 of whom are completely equipped, and the remaining. t 0,000 are armed, but very badly clothed. Tite . rest of the population ca pable of taking the field are for the most part armed with pikes. The accounts received from the western side of India, by the 'recent arrival troth that coast, state the continuance' of tranquility, and acki that Sir HAWED JONES, Ont Ambassador to FATAL! SCHA C, Sovereign of Persia, bad been most cordially tretit , ed at that Court. No circumstance would tend more to disconcert the projects of BuoNAPARTE in the East than such a reception of our Minister at Seheraz. Miss qawaßD..—.This Lady who has long been dis tinguished in the literary world, died on Saturday last at Litchfield. She was the daughter of Dr. SEWA Hi) who belonged to the Cathedral in that place. Ile was a man of great learning, and a very estimable chara6ter. Miss SEWARD first diplayed her poetical powers to the public in a tribute to the memory of the unfortuuate Major ANDRO, whose fate was the subject of universal regret in this Country. it was atterWards understood that this Poetical tribute ,to the memory -of that amiable and accomplished Officer, was not well received by his ta lk telly; why; we know not, as It was marked by the stron6ent math-nooks of respect and admiration for his Worth and talt:nti. Miss SEWARD has since exerted her powers upon numberless occasions, and has certainly displayed' a considerable . share of poetical merit, in her various produCtioris„ though there is an air of study and constraint through the whole, str if, they, were produced by labour rather than by genius. She had been very hand some in her youth, but an accident in early life had rendered her lame. Her character was verz amiable in private life, and her death will be regretted by a numerous circle of literary friends.— .., It ought to be said to her honour that she had' no jealousy of rival talents, but was always ready to pay due homage to contemporary merit. ADDlSolt.—The daughter of this great ornament of literature, by Lady WARsAICE., died but a few years ago, and left five hundred pounda for the pur pose of raising a monument to. his memory. Lord BRADFORD, who is one of her executors, and a de scendant of Lady WARwICK's family, anxious that due honour should be paid to the memory of such a distinguished Poet, such a pure met alit, and such an enlightened supporter of Chriitianity,allotted the task to Itilr. W aSTMACOTT, adding five hunderd pounds to the bequest. This ingenious artist has made a fine statue of ADD; son, which is placed in Poet's Corner, Westminster 'Abbey, and which will soon be open ed for public inspection. On Monday last died, at Plymouth Dock, in the 4)3d year of his age, Mr. .1011 N PALMER, SOO of the late Mr. 1 ) .41.14E11,th° Ador, of Drury-lane Theatre. Mr. 3. PaLossa was well known to the public as one of the eitabytsited Performers of Mr. COLMAN'S Theatre. He by no means inherited the talents of father, who certainlythd not leave his equal, as a 'general Ador, on the London Stage, but he evi dently displayed marks of Improvement every sea . son, and would doubtless have become a very useful Performer. He possessed. literary talents, which Vets *as in several novels and o cc as i ons ) p oems . lh *sis a good-natured man, and had a turn for beaten,' which was very entertaining in est empo. rensous 'seines, and in the relation of whimsical antic;- dotes, The cause of his death was a fever, which 414 6teti him about a fortnight befbre his death. Ho has left a wife, but no children. The Singers for the Opera, from Lisbon, are ar- Tived at Falmouth. They are three in number, and aro accompanied by an excellent female Dancer. SMITHFIELD MARKET, MARCH 3i. , , This day's mprket had but a BOW supply of dif. [trent kinds of cattle; Beef, Mutton, Veal, and Pork are dearer than our last report, and the trade in general was not over brisk. , The sales in the Haymarket were trifling; Hay fetched a better price than Monda '5 tnarket ; Straw and Clover sold at last p r i ces . a su bj o i n an accurate statgruen t o f the pri ces - a numbers : iiir To sink the Olf.ll per stone of Sib , beef 43. Bd. to 6s. od.—hlutton 4s. sod. to 6s. .ps, veal ad. to Bs. otl.--Larnb 7s. od. tow. 0d...-rark is. 6d. to 6d, l t ,""st 450.—Sheep, 3.soo.—Calves, too.— rigs, zoo. if sa. d. tu los. 6 4 . Straw sl. 164. od. to ss. ed.—Cl o over 61. los. to 71. 1,75. 6d. COMMERCE., EXPORT:: OF BRI'l ISII MANLIFACTIYAZi. Vcais ending • s —*Sol 3808 - zso7r,6ec, tSoo .. Years ending lan. S. 1809. Less than in 1807 - ...... 7t0,000 More than the average of 184 Atiti I ioS - - j t6,00l More than tBoB EXPORT OF FOREIGN PRODUCE. Years ending lan. 5-IEO7 . . ,C9,t24,00e rgott 7,03,0°, Loss on the Foreign Produce exported in the last Year, comparedswith preceding one . i,532,e4t0 Cain on British Manutadures compared with the same Year To the above we have to add, that, on moving for an Account, a few days since, in the House of Com mons, Mr. Ross stated, that on a comparison of the real value of the Exports of British Manufadures in the last year, with the year 1807, the excess in Is your of last year was 401,0001. We have already alluded to the Order of the Su • preme Junta at Seville, dire&ing the Spanish armies to give no quarter to French troops in certain cases, and the following is a copy of the Decree, containing the grounds on which this extraordinary measure is resorted to• We have translated it from a Supple ment to the LisbOn Gazette of the loth inst. DECREE. cc• His Majesty, considering that the French, in the unjust and barbarous war which tily wage against Spain, pay no regard to any principle of the laws of nations—that they shamelessly violate the most se lemn treaties, as has been verified with respect to the capitulation of Madrid, since, contrary to the stipu lations therein made, they imprison, persecute, and banish peaceable Citizens and respedable Magistrates, impoiing, at the same time, the most disgraceful punishments on other unfortunate persons, on the slightest suspicions and most frivolous pretexts.— Seeing that they continue every where to defile • the sanctity of temples, the purity of domestic honour, • and to trample on ,the rights of humanity—that acts of the most atrocious kind, and which make human nature shudder, are daily heard of, such as the death •of a nun, who threw herself into a well, to avoid 'the ; brutality of a Frenchman ; the cruel murder of"A Mother whose breasts were cut oil in the act of giving Su. k to her son, by those monsters, who afterwards Babied her infant ; and a number of other cases equally horrible ; attrocitiea painful to write, dreadful to read, and degrading to endure; finally, his .Majesty being convinced, that still to observe the laws of natural equity' with those • who respea no 'law whatever, would not br mo deration and justice, but the most culpable in difference and the basest meanneii, has resulted to repress and punish those crimes. Calling therefore all Europe to witness the awful necessity which has compelled him to resort to the means of retaliation, by returning on a san t ;utuary banditti violence tor violence, he hereby decrees : 1. That no quarter shall be given to any. French Soldier, Officer, or,Generat, ho may be nude prisoner in any town or district,; in which ads, contrary to the laws of war. have been committed by the enemy, but that such persous shall be immediately put to the sword. as an example to their companions, and a satisfaction to outrag t.I .lUlll4lliEy. 11. 'That the present Decree' snail be printed, proclaimed, i and distributed n the Spanish armies, in order to gs due exc. ;cut ion. You are also .equired to make arrangements for ttto fulfilment of the acme The Marquis of Asroaca., Vice•Pretident. hl.Acris us GARAv. Done in the Royal M-cazan of seviile, Feb. 7,-18(1. The Lisbon Gazette also contains a letter from Mr. ADAIR to Mr. FIIRRIS at Seville, announcing a peace between Great Britain and the Porte.. The letter is dated on board the Seakorse, January► 6. A Note from the Official Gazette Of the Spanish Government is subjoined, in which it is stated, that during the negotiation, the French Charge d'Af faires presented a remonstrance to the Turkish Go vernment, declaring that if Mr.' ADAIR should be permitted to come to Constantinople, he would im mediately leave. that capital. Dispatches have been received frOm New South Wales, which bring intelligence down to the middle of September. Lieutenant-Governor FOVEAtiX ar rived on the 28th July, and wok the command of the place. Mr. Br.IGH, who bad been superseded by the Officers of the Colony, was living in the State House under arrest. Lieutenant-Governor FovEAVX issued the following proclamation . " JOSEPH FOVEAUX, " As the Government of this . Colony has been upwards of six months out of the hands of WI LLIA &ion, Egg: and as the circumstances attending his suspension • have been fully submitted to his Ma jesty's Ministers, who 'alone are competent to de cide, Lieutenant-GovernOr FoveAux conceives it to be beyond his authority, to judge . between Captain Bt.tcts and the Office' s whoin he tbund in the actual command of the Colony. . • Its assuming the Administration of the Govern ment until his Majesty's pleasure t. 111 be known, Lieutenant-Governor Foveaux i determined to adopt such tneasures as he deeMs to be most effec tual for the preservation at' the Public tranquility, and the security of public and private property, and ' to follow in the discharge of the arduous duties im posed on him a system of the strictest: economy, and the most impartial justice between persons of e%.cry description. " All reports, communications, and other corre spondence, relative to" public buiiness, are to be transmitted to JAMES FINUOANS, Esq. who is ap pointed Secretary. " July 30, I Sge." "GOD SAVE THB KING." There is little news of any interest in the Sydney Gazettes, A up. vs.—Several persons who have been prisoners, in the Colony having obuud e d th e mselv e s into the Courts of Ju#ice in the character of CounsellerS and Advocate, orders have been issued by Lieut..Gover notFovertox, forbidding any person from presuming to interfere With causes pending before the Courts Without a special licence from him fur that purpose; and apprising those who have been Cenvids, that a disobedience of this injunction will be punisi4d in the most exemplary manner. Tire Dundee, CUMUINGS, bound from' hence to Prince o 1 Wales Island, was lost at the extreme et Hunter's River on the 15th instant. Two Sem% who had joined the ship at Penang, ware drowned.. The rest of (ha crow were saved. AA' HISTORICAL RECIPE:44h OF THE CA\n OF 11UONAPARTE IN ITAL Y, IN Tint YEARS 170 AND 1797• ENTRANCE Or THE FRENCH INTO TIIE Tyaot, AND THIN . PRECIPITATE RETREAT OF WU R MSI.II, wilt) ABANDONS BASSANO TO THROW HIMSELF INTO /MANTUA (CONTINUED). Wuastsma had entered Italy with glory; his first steps had been signalized by a viaory. He bad dei. feated an enemy far Superior in force—but WW I ti grieve to say, his army is about to give us the most deplorable examples of cowardice mid corruption': arid it will be most clearly demonstrated that 13119. , NAPARTE, who attributes all his success to his bravery and his talents, ought, in justice, to attri bute the greatest part of it to those shameful means which great men never allow theinselves to employ, •and which prove nothing but the baseness and 'cowardice of his adversaries. WURMEEK had conceived a vast plan, the execu tion of which would have been a. terrible blow to the army of Iit)ONAi'ARTE. ,'He had received intel ligence that the Directory had ordered' him to open a passage into ,the Tyrol by the way of Inspruck, and thui Make s favourable diversion for the army of wheal the Archduke CitARLES was severely harrassing on the Banks of the Rhine.— Now what did Wuttusaa determined to facili tate this passage, conceiving that it was the most feasible moda,of surrounding and defeating him. In pursuance of this plan,,. he ordered two-thirds of his army to march by Valsbgaua to 4 450 n0....:.- The remaitiing third had orders to 'occupy Alla, on the high road front Verona . to Trent. This corps was instro.ted, on its first rencootre With the .French, to mike a vigorous resistance, `then to re. treat slowly towards the 'German Tyrol, harrassing the enemy, however, from day to day, by partial at tacks, in order to make him pay dearly far every foot .ot ground which was yielded to him. Once ar riv,A in the German Tyrol, this body was to form a junction with a considerable corps, composed of troops of the line, and of brave Tyrolese Chasieurs, risen en . masse for the defence of their country, while WURMSER himself would follow the Frenc army, to harrass it a difficult country, and oh struCt its march in every possible mode. The very day on 'which two-thirds of the Aus trian army, in consequence of Woaressa's scheme, marched for Bassano, BUONAPARTE also put him self in motion for Alla,• but with a very different • design from that of gaining Insprudk. That third Of the Austrian army which had taken the route of Alla„ was encamped on 'those IT101.111.• tains, in most admirable positions. The nature of the ground enabled them to check for many days, the ,khole of the enemy's army, had it been more nu.. merons than it malty. was. And yet-L.who' would believe it ?—in despite of these fortnidable positions, • the Austrians were dislodged and put to flight with a facility and a. rapidity .absolutely inconceivable ! The number of prisoners was great beyond belief, - . prisdners top, who surrendered themselves up in a base and cowardly manner, and without attempting the least defence.* In less than a week the whole Italian Tyrol was evacuated, and BOONAPARTB figand himself in presence of WURMSBR at Bassano. The Austrian Generallad no conception of tbis;---- Two days before he had sent one of his divisions, under the command of Bum d'O'rr, to Verona, by . 'the way of Vicenza, which it passed on the morn- " 1 present the Reader with an anecdote highly worthy of preservation. I had it from the Marquis GlA.stint'Ami, an inhabitant of Vicenza, a iron respetted fa his grey hairs, and far more respeClable for his probity anti his virtpeis It was told to him by the person to whom it happened * &Colonel of a Battalion of the division of MASSIINA, who* with sea then, took prisonersinoo Austrians without any resistance. This man, a tew days , afterwards, entered Vicenza, and teak up Ida quarteis at the palace of the Marquis Gto I r n t AN i ; while at dinner with him, he gavp him the lag account, which, from It's 'naivete, is entitled to pedal credit, 1. What would you say, Monsieur Le Nlargnis, if I AUNT. cd you, that with sou oimy men I had taken 3;203 Austrians in the Tyrol 1 'Tis a rear 1a l; I give you my honour, hearken." While our Division was marching towartts,Ktvetedo, Ge ncral MassLsi.% ordered me to take t five hundred men, and proceed to dislodge. tits en , my from a height, which gave him an immense advantage - over us. But, Citizen General, said 1, ca l ) you seriously mean that wiih such a hatlllitll;—ile cut me short. —Obey- without hesitation, said he, and I will an. slyer for the success. So said, so done advanced to the foot of the mountain, and I maneuvered as if I meditated an *ruck:. I entail net discover among the enemy, any sign of preparing to resist me. I suspeded that this apparent tran quility was a snare to draw me 'into An unfavourable shwa. tion. Upon this I halted, and began to reed upon what , was best to do. Seeing, howeier, that the enemy still con tinued inadive, I detached a Flag Of Truce, with orders to tell tlic:Austrlan General, that if he preferred sturendeting to fighting, 'lkt:should Ccrps Icy dewh their arms, This h o mid,.and S Itati4-altall 1 say it ? rnakin?,;, with tny tittle trnot), : ihree thotistod prisOneri, 'poi tine of whom had fired a shot Pt The Alarquit Gr.tsrit,4lAN 1, when he related to me this fsa i w!titdi solemn]> averred tint he -lad , at aunt t,, one NyllA le to what he hitnself had Leen tolti. The u dicer who corrananded this detachment was a • Yittneittnao, Cnativtoryerpienan.. lot or the 7th of September, and proceeded to Montebello. WURMABB, remained at Rassauo, in perfea tranquility with the military Chest. He was within an inch of • being taken:— ‘e• V.VURMSER,". says BUONAPARTE, in his o Report, "and all the treasure of the army, very narrowly escaped me. A detachment of my cum~ pany of Guides, who were hard upon him, //o f : • ing pursued him very closely, had two men kilied, and the commanding-officer wounded." • Let any one now explain to us how a Gonersl so skillful and experienced as Wontoxa, could b. surprized in this Manner, if was not by treason ? BOOKATARTE had, indeed, made some marches ; he had passed the most difficult point. o the Brenta, and his army was halted for the night, at least two hours' march from Bassano. But what ever might - have been the celerity of BUONAYARTE, there was more than sufficient time to inforlt. WORMER of his arrival. He who commanded th. advanced posts, and who was charged with the de fence of the difficult defiles of the Brenta, was bound, in duty, to inform his General of the -a y . proach•of the enemy. He did not : he must thin be accused of haviOg betrayed him. But ►he wretch on whom the reproach of treason most dire,:itly falls, and whom it was impossible toji.mity, is the Quay= tCr•filater General, Baron Ds LAufia. Ac had been informed of the arrival of .the French by one of the most distinguished Nobles of Bissatkp; this; person had learned it from the peasants of ;be neigh bouring villages, who came to him trim very complaining-most bitterly of tie barbarous trunt-, ment which they and their, wives had suffered trawl .- the soldiers of iitioNAPART., tie intelligence of too much importance not to be im mediately conveyed to the derieral. • He hastened, then, at 'break' of day to 'Flead. quarter). He was about to enter, when he' „n :t , Baron Da LAUEII, Who, with an air of the 11.0-t perfea tranquility, asked what brought hint so early, " What brought we," replied the Noble! , man,' " r is the dan i rr with which you are menaced. The French army is arrived; yours will be lost.' I am going to acquaint the General, who is certainly ignorant of it." General Lnuatt absolutely torh.d him to advance, and brutally told him not to meddie .with what did not concern him. You supp,:se, perhaps, that LAVEk was desirous of 'laying him self the merit of giving this imelligence to 11:s Commander. He tank tiopotici of it He loiterod to the last moment,.and the old General was n t informed of the arrival of the French, till he wa3 in ',the' utmost danger of falling into their hands. A few hours before, there was sufficient time to pass the Piave, and to fall back upon the Ftloul but v surprised as he was, he had 'no other nteasore to take, but to throw himself into Mantua. This he did, carrying with him the military chest, tto the great mortification of BUONAPARTE. Ln, be continued.) 4GRICbL77.IR4L REPORT. The lands in general never worked mareJtindly. for Spring Corn sowing, than through the whole of the mouth, which has proved a mare than usually busy one, as much of the early sown Beans 311 d Pease have been ploughed up, and re-tsown. Th c ! tender Barley soils in Norfolk and Suffolk have dressed, though late, very kindly for the Seed . ; and so havethe heavier ones ib other parts for Oats also. The chief part of the extensive tra& that WM' dr . . luged by the flood in Lineolnshire, Cambridgeshire, &c. continues inundated, so that mote than tuo,utio acres, destinedfereoft corn crops, must remainiun prodtretive for the present year, and probably-fin. many seasons to come. The Wheat Plants have benefited much by the dry weather in the 'Omer, and the genial. showers in the latter 'part of the: audrith ; they have been less touched in. every dis- Wet by the slag, or wire worm; than is useetll at this season of the year. Hemp has ben sown to a large extent in the Fen Courqies, and the expo eled bounty of 5 s.'per bushel on Flax Seed has alre.ely brought in sufficient quantities of it to reduce the price of that article from twenty-five to ?.i3 per hogshead, and to insure a sufficiency for t.l,;:i demand .of Ireland. The Flop Plantatious, careful cultivation, push. their bine strongly to tip! pole. The prices of 'Corn at Mark4ane h ‘ av ii t i i c e h ar i i :r . (e t but little, except in Qats, which are l o w er: t h at of Wheat is kept steady by foreign imports, v daily arriving, under the connivance al the French Government. The Turnip crops have : ll4d out bet, ter than wasexpecled; and the young Ay-Grasses and Clovers, promi se an early and-plentiful blots Of Spring Seed. The MeadoWs and Lay-Pas tures are likewise forward enough in many countries, to receive. fattening stock id ready. Meat Markets have had erfarther rise in priate and Veal, the former fetching 7s; and the latter tk per stone by the carcase, in Smithfield. Mutton is more plentiful. Lamb, 'and Pig 'Pork, continue at last month's prices. Horses of all kinds are atNicer, particularly those fit to remount 911 r light i;lvoiry. The Wool Markets are lower, partieulaily for fitro Fleeces of the short kinds, owing to large importa tions of Merino Wool; ceoligoed from several p6rtii in Spain. Yesterday morning, shout one o'clock, a dread. int tire broke out at the Crooked Billet public.house, Johnson's Change, Robetuary-lane„ which, aller threatening destruelion to the wholes aright. iurbooti, entitely consumed that and two adjoining liengea, besides damaging some others. Not withitanditift the exertions of the Whitechapel Volunteers, v.e tte informed several poor people have severely term' iii their property.